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    The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

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If you think a weakness can be turned into a strength, I hate to tell you this, but that's another read more

If you think a weakness can be turned into a strength, I hate to tell you this, but that's another weakness

by Jack Handy Found in: Weakness Quotes,
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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.

by Ralph Waldo Emerson Found in: Weakness Quotes,
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Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

by Albert Einstein Found in: Weakness Quotes,
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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

by Edmund Burke Found in: Compromise Quotes,
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Quality, quality, quality: never waver from it, even when you don't see how you can afford to keep it up. read more

Quality, quality, quality: never waver from it, even when you don't see how you can afford to keep it up. When you compromise, you become a commodity and then you die.

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Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend.

Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend.

by Josh Billings Found in: Weakness Quotes,
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I'm a compromiser and a maneuverer. I try to get "something." That's the way our system works.

I'm a compromiser and a maneuverer. I try to get "something." That's the way our system works.

by Lyndon B. Johnson Found in: Compromise Quotes,
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Amiable weakness of human nature.

Amiable weakness of human nature.

by Edward Gibbon Found in: Weakness Quotes,
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Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible but the read more

Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible but the world of pure reason knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity.

by Bertrand Russell Found in: Compromise Quotes,
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